A gallery of air power
By: reproducing a series of paintings by Frank Lemon of Wright-powered "firsts" in World War II.
Contributors: Wright Aeronautical Corporation.
Publisher: Presented by Wright Aeronautical Corporation (a division of Curtiss-Wright Corporation)
Published: 1945
Place of publication: Paterson, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Aeronautics -- Pictorial works.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations -- Pictorial works.; Airplanes, Military, in art.; Bombers in art.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: "This set of eight prints is one of an edition of two thousand sets lithographed in 1945 under the direction of Leroy C. Harford, by Albert H. Vela Company in New York."
LC copies in library bindings; plates interleaved.
Copy assigned to LOT 7578 has original binding; copy also lacking four of the color plates; no interleaving between plates.
Transfer; LC Aeronautics Division; 1954.
Table of contents: value: Awash in the Atlantic, the first submarine captured by plane wallows below a Hudson. August 1941; value: Sweeping low over rice paddies, Mitchells from a Navy carrier raid Tokio for the first time. April 1942; value: A few against many, Dauntlesses from far-off carriers race to the Battle of Midway. June 1942; value: On Independence Day, Havocs scud across the Channel on the first American raid over Europe. July 1942; value: High over Regensburg, Flying Fortresses drone to Africa on the first AAF shuttle raid. August 1943; value: Long a Pacific mystery, the secret naval base at Truk is hit by Avengers. February 1944; value: Out of the night, Superfortresses come from Chinese bases for their first Japanese raid. June 1944; value: From out of the South Pacific, Helldivers make the initial raid on Guam. July 1944.